The desolate village of Alem is even more desolate after the lack of people, and the crops that no one takes care of, the half-dead and half-pulled with their heads down, are all the result of no one to irrigate them.

Suddenly a procession of the small village, dressed in the ranks of the Italian army, watched the houses in the village vigilantly, and carefully inspected them inside and out.

At the same time, the outside of the village was not spared, and the ravines, streams, and small valleys were checked, and after seeing no one in sight, they climbed the mountain and waved the flag in their hands vigorously.

"There is no danger in this basin, let's go."

Pascal, who was waiting outside, put down the binoculars in his hand and gave orders.

And with his order, the team set off again.

The previous onslaught of cattle in the valley made Pascal more and more cautious, which also caused him to not be able to get here last night. However, he did not take it to heart, because the plan is not static, and every commander needs to be flexible.

However, as the team began to move again, the two soldiers chatted. "Dore, why don't you have Abyssinian cavalry today, these guys are inseparable from us."

"Shut up, Pol, do you like to see them passing in front of you brandishing their sabers?"

Unbeknownst to the two soldiers, on the hill farther away, in front of a camouflaged dead tree, dozens of Abyssinian soldiers were hiding here, observing the Italian army in the distance. In the hands of one of the leading officers, a telescope, a rarity in his army, was pressed to his eye socket to observe the movements of the Italian troops in the distance.

When most of the troops must have entered the valley, he immediately gave orders to the soldiers around him. "Send a message immediately, the enemy has entered."

Following his order, the soldiers quickly knocked down the dead tree. As the tree fell to the ground, strange things happened, and on other hills, there were also scenes of trees falling to the ground.

That's right, the message tree is a universal thing.

Such a situation was not observed by the Italian troops on the march.

The Italian troops, swaggering into the basin, will soon learn the consequences of not observing carefully.

"Knock knock~"

It was a slight shaking of the earth, which was felt by the Italian troops in the basin.

"What's going on?"

"Why is the ground shaking?"

While the other soldiers were still a little confused, there were experienced veterans whose faces changed drastically. "It's not good, this is a large group of cavalry coming, and the number may exceed 10,000."

In fact, the veteran's estimate is a little different, because this is more than 10,000, and 20,000 Abyssinian cavalry are rushing towards this side with overwhelming momentum.

The officers and men of the two battalions in charge of guarding the mountain were looking at the enemy who suddenly appeared in amazement. They couldn't figure out where this enemy had suddenly appeared.

In fact, these cavalrymen were hiding in a col next to it, where the low terrain just blocked the mountain people from visiting. This is the location chosen by Johannes IV after repeated experimentation.

Because this battle was related to his success or failure, and there was no room for failure, he needed to exert all his strength from the beginning, so he drew all the cavalry out and organized this surprise attack with the cavalry as the first move.

In addition to the cavalry, even larger infantry emerged from all sides, and these infantry with various weapons rushed towards the basin from all directions.

"Enemy attack!"

The sentinel's roar sent the news of the enemy's attack, in fact, the army already knew about it without saying it, and such a huge attack could be felt by anyone who was not dead.

As the commander of the unit, Major General Pascal was the first to respond.

"Concentrate the machine-gun wagons to the front, give priority to the enemy cavalry, and the mountain brigade immediately prepares to go up the hill to block the enemy's incoming infantry. The artillery units immediately went to the rear, and the 4th Regiment hastened to build positions and prepare for the onslaught of the enemy cavalry. Also, immediately ask the rearguard unit to send someone to inform General Simeone that our army is besieged by the enemy's main force and ask for reinforcements. ”

After a series of orders, Major General Pascal's hanging heart finally fell. He is not afraid of the enemy's large-scale attack, but the kind of small-scale attack is a headache, because this kind of small-scale attack not only makes the troops stop and stop and delay time, but also because it keeps the soldiers on high alert, which will increase the psychological pressure of the soldiers.

And now, although it is being raided, it can also give full play to its firepower advantage, so who is the dominant side needs to look at the performance of the battlefield.

With the order of Major General Pascal, the machine-gun carriage disguised as grain and grass was removed from the shield, revealing a cold killing weapon. The soldier who operated it, hiding behind a baffle made of steel plates, exposed only his head.

These machine-gun wagons immediately converged in front of them, and the network of fire composed of more than 40 Maxim machine guns was sure to impress the enemy.

They didn't have to wait long, and just as they were setting up their positions, Abyssinian's cavalry appeared in front of them.

Although the two battalions on the mountain desperately fired at it, how could it be so easy to fight a fast-moving enemy, let alone that they were so far away, except for more than twenty unlucky people, no one else was lost.

These Abyssinian cavalry, seeing the Italian army appearing in front of them, shouted and planned to assault with the most lethal cavalry.

From here, we can see the advanced nature of Simeone's use of horse-drawn carriages to install machine guns, if it were not for these machine guns mounted on horse-drawn carriages, relying on those machine guns that use wheels to maneuver, I am afraid that a disaster is just around the corner.

"Fire!"

The commander in charge of directing the battle, as soon as he saw the enemy cavalry approaching the distance, gave the order to open fire.

"Dadada~"

With the commander's order, the Maxim machine guns, deployed in a semicircle, burst out with incomparable power. More than forty tongues of fire let the attacking cavalry know what hell on earth is.

Countless tongues of fire engulfed these brave Abyssinian cavalry, and their patches were swept away by ferocious fire.

In front of the cold killing machine, the group's charge of the Abyssinian cavalry was overcome.

Facing his cavalry being suppressed by the enemy's powerful firepower, the commander of the Abyssinian cavalry who led the team shouted with red eyes. "Charge, keep charging, can't stop, don't stop!"

In fact, there is no need for him to say, every cavalryman knows that as long as the speed of a large-scale charge rises, no one dares to reduce the speed. Because the enemy's bullets will not necessarily kill you, but as long as you slow down, then the comrades who charge behind you will definitely leave you dead, and in the state of galloping horses, anyone must ensure this speed.

In some ways, the Abyssinians were able to boast more than 20,000 well-trained cavalry, and it is no wonder that they were able to dominate East Africa.

It's just that today is a disaster for this cavalry, and the warriors who have followed one after another have no chance to rush in front of the enemy, and they have fallen on the way to charge.

But their sacrifices were not without effect.

In front of a machine gun with empty ammunition and white steam, the main shooter shouted to the secondary shooter next to him. "Quick, reload."

The co-shooter quickly removed the empty ammo box and threw it aside, next to which was an empty ammo box. Then he quickly picked up a tin box full of ammunition and loaded it, and the main shooter picked up the canvas bullet chain and loaded it with a snap.

Then the sound of machine guns rang out again.

On the battlefield, such a situation can be seen everywhere, after all, Makqin is a big eater of bullets, and the one hundred and fifty bullet chains he uses can only last for twenty seconds. And fortunately, the Maxim machine gun is water-cooled, if it is an air-cooled machine gun, in the face of such a situation, it is simply impossible to resist the assault of the incoming cavalry.

But even so, it still made the shouts sound one after another from the position.

"Quick, I'm running out of ammunition here, and I need to resupply it."

"Where's the cooling water, hurry up and get it."

Even busier than the main and secondary shooters are the logisticians, who need to meet all their requirements.

Now these more than forty machine guns are the reliance of the Italians. And the Abyssinian cavalry, if they wanted to rush into the Italian army and cause slaughter, they needed to cross the machine gun position.

It's like a bull, it's up to who can't hold it first. Whether the Abyssinians piled up a path with their lives and fought in front of the position, or whether the Italian machine guns crushed the enemy, it all depended on the performance of both sides.

As the fighting intensified, the number of Abyssinian casualties skyrocketed, and the Italian machine guns on the positions were not unscathed.

"Click!" With a bang, a machine gun was damaged due to too intense use, and the fire was muted.

This made the main and secondary shooters jump to their feet in a hurry, and they tried the hot machine gun several times, but the machine gun just didn't react.

"What should I do?"

"Quick repair."

However, if you want to repair weapons on the battlefield, you need a big heart, and in the face of the overwhelming cavalry in front of them, the two of them fiddled for a long time and didn't need to let them resume their work.

This is not a special case, as time goes on, the machine guns have been firing non-stop, and one problem after another.

In the final analysis, this is because the early Maxim machine gun is not stable enough, but this problem is really fatal for the current Italian officers and soldiers.

However, compared with the Italian officers and soldiers, the Abyssinian cavalry was even more miserable, and the incessant charge caused them to fall in front of the position in pieces, and the corpses of their men and horses became new barricades, so that the cavalry in the rear could not rush at all.

This tragic situation also greatly damaged its morale, and its indomitable momentum was also weakened, and many cavalry were already very hesitant when charging.

"Boom, boom!"

At this time, the Italian artillery was finally erected, which also became the last straw, so that the Abyssinian cavalry could no longer maintain their morale, and they retreated to the rear.

And the commander of the team led by him, seeing such a scene, could only reluctantly order. "Retreat."

In this short battle of cavalry against machine guns, the Abyssinians, in their flesh and blood, understood that cavalry could not charge machine gun positions.

However, the cost of this truth was too staggering, and the Abyssinian cavalry lost nearly six thousand in order to understand this truth.

And after seeing the machine gun repulsing the enemy cavalry, Major General Pascal, as the commander, did not have time to rejoice, and immediately ordered. "Immediately move the machine gun that can still be used up the mountain, the enemy over there is almost here."

I'm in a good mood